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From: barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Stumpers
Summary: using ^C will sometimes cause this
Message-ID: <5660@holston.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 20:22:08 GMT
References: <21990002@hpvcfs1.HP.COM> <25A51804.9795@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <3404@rti.UUCP>
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In article <3404@rti.UUCP>, bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright) writes:
> In article <355@marvin.moncam.co.uk>, emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) writes:
> 
> The usual way is that the computer got rebooted while there were files open.
> Could be caused by any number of things:  power failure, hardware problems,
> program bugs, user error (rebooting at inopportune times in the program).
> 
I have found that using ^C to abort a program will sometimes
do this also. But how else to you get out of a dead-lock other
that Ctrl-Alt-Del. Perhaps DOS  is not as well behaved as some
would lead us to believe.
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